Stock food.



citizen of the United States, residing at UNITED snares PATENT OFFICE FRANK A. BARNES, 0F BOONE, IOWA.

STOCK FOOD.

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To all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that I, FRANK A. BARNES, a

Boone, in the county of Boone and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock Foods, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to a food compound and more particularly to a stock food and has for its object to increase the nutritive value of stock foods.

Another object is to provide a stock food consisting of a number of ingredients having a high percentage of albumen whereby the food value of the compound is considerably greater than that of other stock foods heretofore known, While at the same time the cost of the food not increased to any material extent. a

With these and other objects in view my invention consists of the following ingredt ents mixed in substantially the proportions set forthz ln. order to provide 100 pounds of the food pounds of linseed meal, 3" pounds of wheat middlings, poun' peanut meal, and 122;; pounds of eocminut meal are mixed together.

A stock food composed of the above named ingredients mixed in suhsta-ntially the proportions specified have been found very beneficial in the production of muscle, fat and energy in cows, horses, hogs, sheep and other cattle. alsoadaplorl to he ted to towls and will materially increase the production of The nutr ive properties of the food, viz. the protein, fats and oils are contained in the food in their most condensed form. The cost of the compound is, however, less than that of the majority of stock foods.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Iatented July 30, 1912.

Application filed March 21, 1910. Serial No. 550,725.

I have found that by thus combining the peanut meal and cocoanut meal with the linseed meal and wheat middlings, the nutritive properties of the resultant compound is materially increased and that the cattle thrive upon the same. The chemical analysis of the compound has determinedthat the same contains 25% protein and 7% of fats and oils.

While the cocoanut meal and the peanut meal are used in the same proportion and prefeably constitute together 25% of the entire food, it will be understood that these proportions are susceptible of considerable variation without atlccting to any material extent the food properties of the compound. Buckwheat middlings, corrn oil cake or cotton seed meal, and the admixture there with of 25% of peanut meal and cocoanut meal in equal parts has also been found to be productive of good results.

.llaving tlnisqlescrilied the invention what is claimed as new is it A stock food containing substantially 'of peanut meal and cocoanut meal in s: iostan tial ly equal proportions. l food mi'nprising a mixture of 1.52% pounds each of peanut (OHIllli' meal with substantially id each of linseed meal and wheat FRANK A. BARNES.

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